Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...success anymore?their dutiful parents are facing the gloomiest economic times since World War II?so what's the point? Why not go out and play?for several days and nights at a time? But running away to Shibuya or other metropolitan party hubs can be anything but a harmless lark. Some young runaways have been murdered. The lure of prostitution, to earn spending money or just to find a warm place to sleep, is hard to avoid considering the vast network of predators trained to sweep young girls off the streets and into the simmering sex industry. Authorities...
...never seen an episode of MTV’s series “The Real World,” it’s probably because he or she has been too busy making fun of it. Much pleasure awaits those who have the time in their day for some harmless “Real World” bashing (in other words, poking fun at seeing a supposedly uncontrived soap opera). But nonetheless, the inherent charm of watching a group of twenty-somethings whine and complain about their meaningless relationships and the arduous task of “finding themselves?...
...young Crimson backs—freshman Liza Barber and sophomores Lauren Cozzolino and Caitlin Fisher—turned several seemingly dangerous Hartford breaks into harmless throw-ins, and headed every high ball directed their way into the opposite direction without fail...
...When Beers was nominated last spring - a lifetime ago - an all-star ad exec looked like just the ticket for a post that has long been a high-level plum akin to an ambassadorship, or a harmless halfway house for political appointees. Beers's predecessor, Evelyn Lieberman, was exiled there after a brave (but fruitless) effort to keep the president and Monica apart in the White House. Post-Sept. 11, with the battle for the Arab street to whom Osama is a hero almost as important as the battle to capture Jalalabad, the job seems to call more...
...Probably not. I'm the first to criticize the idea of turning every normal human habit into a full-fledged pathological problem (does each child who throws a tantrum deserve the diagnosis Attention Deficit Disorder?). But a group of experts insists that binge eating disorder isn't a harmless variation of what we all do, but a distinct, troublesome syndrome. Though we don't need another eating disorder to worry about, I'm inclined to agree. "Binge eaters are totally preoccupied. When they're not binging, they're worried about binging," says James Hudson, professor of psychology at Harvard Medical...